that you can feel hints of the road and the car through the steering wheel. Some wheels are numb to things like rocks (on purpose), others let you know of every little imperfection under the road. "perfect feel" is up to the user, but most reviewers tend to like it closer to the latter and not the former.

Steering response. AKA, the time difference in when you turn the wheel left to the time the car starts moving left. Hyundais used to have notoriously bad steering response. So bad that when I bought my sonata they talked to me at length about how its been improved. lol. TBH, its OK now. Not go-kart response good, but not bad either.

Steering response. AKA, the time difference in when you turn the wheel left to the time the car starts moving left. Hyundais used to have notoriously bad steering response. So bad that when I bought my sonata they talked to me at length about how its been improved. lol. TBH, its OK now. Not go-kart response good, but not bad either.

My grand marquis has comically bad steering response. Pretty decent feel (hydraulic rack and pinion setup after all), but it seriously is about a full second delay between moving the wheel and turning the car.
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To turn the wheels, you turn the steering wheel which then turns the steering column which usually has a couple of U-joints in it. There's the firs place slop can occur. If you have rack-and-pinion steering, the steering column turns the pinion which moves the rack, and there can be a bit of slop there. The rack moves the tie rods which are attached to the spindle, so there can be some slop in that connection. Lastly, to lower NVH (noise, vibration, harshness), the steering rack is attached to the front subframe by bushings, and there can be some give there as well.

REV it high:It is something that Hyundai and Kia still have not gotten either.

Oh its better. It may not be Porshe perfect, but they've come a long way. my 2009 sonata isnt bad. I drove a 2003 sonata a few months ago and it was horrible. Drove a 2013 Gen Coupe and it was pretty tight compared to my sonata. For the cars I've owned, the best response I've had was from my Nissan 200SX. It was very responsive.

I don't think those would make a delay I mean they're metal and they're connected. I don't think it will flex. I think the main reason for the delay might be the steering ratio. I mean if you got a quick ratio steering like in f1 or go kart, I don't there would be any lag whatsoever. The reason for that is in a quick ratio steering wheel, in order to make the car turn, you turn it a little, and turning a little takes less time. I think also the dead zone in steering wheel might be a huge problem too. Am I correct?

mert-ozturk_343:I don't think those would make a delay I mean they're metal and they're connected. I don't think it will flex. I think the main reason for the delay might be the steering ratio. I mean if you got a quick ratio steering like in f1 or go kart, I don't there would be any lag whatsoever. The reason for that is in a quick ratio steering wheel, in order to make the car turn, you turn it a little, and turning a little takes less time. I think also the dead zone in steering wheel might be a huge problem too. Am I correct?

No mechanical linkage is perfect, think about it this way:

Imagine that to steer the car there was a solid metal bar hooked to both spindles with a bearing at each end to let the wheels turn. In that sort of system there's no slop, as soon as you move the bar the spindles move.

Now in an actual steering system there's all sorts of mechanical linkages in there. Some degree of you turning the wheel is taking up slop in the system.

Go read up on the new STi where they tried to get steering response times in line with a Porsche. We're talking milliseconds here, so there's not that much slop.